ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY

The Executives of the Information Technology Group and the Director of Infrastructure and Technology—at Client have requested that Cloudify provide a statement of work for a consultancy engagement.

The decision of where to host services and applications of an organization in the Cloud is a critical one, as it can impact many facets of the business services, including performance, availability, scaling, security, privacy, compliance, operations, staffing, and costs. Client is engaging Cloudify to perform a study to determine the optimal Cloud hosting solution for the organization.

Cloudify will provide a detailed analysis of a service bundle (made up of infrastructure, applications, network, interfaces, etc.) selected by the Client Executives. This will include both the business and technology requirements of Client. All relevant technology strategies, as well as security and compliance requirements of the organization will be gathered and studied in detail. The first outcome of this engagement will be the matrix showing three or more viable alternatives, and recommending one of them to implement and benefit from Hybrid IT. This will include the pros and cons for each option considered, as well as a financial comparison of ongoing costs. High level budget estimates will be provided for moving all other service bundles, services, and systems to this new Hybrid environment.

ADVISORY SERVICE OVERVIEW

The presumption is that Client has at hand the detailed inventories of servers and applications that will be required for analysis; therefore, a manual discovery effort will not be required. Cloudify’s effort will focus on analyzing Client’s existing inventories and requirements, including those embodied in their current DR plan if any. Cloudify will then evaluate the options that best align with Client’s business requirements, make a recommendation, and, upon approval, document the architecture for that recommendation.

While every business and every environment is unique, the methodology used with the Cloud Planning will still follow a well-established, standardized approach.

Cloudify’s Cloud Candidacy project will take approximately four (3) weeks to complete and is designed to provide the following:

Analysis of Business, Financial, Regulatory, and Technical requirements
Analysis of Client’s existing inventories of applications, storage and compute capacity
Review of Client’s existing network capacity
Analysis of Client’s currently defined RPO and RTO if any
A high-level review of the Client’s existing architectures

Analysis of Cloud options including financial considerations

Understanding of the security impacts, including Governance, Risk and Compliance for any DR option considered

Business Report

IT Report

Draft detailed analysis

Draft recommendation of a solution

Final recommendation

Finalized financials

Proposed architecture for that solution on the selected workload/application